On the criticism of treating intelligence as a one-dimensional number, I briefly note that the one dimensional conceptualization is a simplified but useful abst

On the criticism of treating intelligence as a one-dimensional number, I briefly note that the one dimensional conceptualization is a simplified but useful abstraction. It abstracts over the fairly blatant fact that things can be smarter than other things in ways that we care about. For example, I'm smarter than a mouse, and Einstein is smarter than me. Maybe not along every possible dimension. But for every operational intelligence metric you could come up with, every way of assigning intelligences numbers that was interesting and useful, I would probably have a higher number than a mouse and Einstein would probably have a higher number than me.